Richtext Editor: Fork (RTEF)

Richtext Editor: Fork (RTEF)
CURRENT VERSION: 0.005, Released on 2007-12-27

intro

mit license

what's new

Introduction

RTEF User Interface Richtext Editor: Fork (RTEF) is an open source, multilingual and cross-browser WYSIWYG editor. RTEF is based on the designMode() functionality introduced in Internet Explorer 5, and implemented in Mozilla 1.3+ using the Mozilla Rich Text Editing API.

It works with, Internet Explorer 5.5+/Mozilla 1.3+/Firefox 0.6.1+/Netscape 7.1+/Safari 1.3+ and Opera 9+. All other browsers will display a standard textarea box instead.

RTEF was originally known as RTE (Revamped), an enhancement release to Kevin Roth's Cross browser Richtext Editor (a former public domain and open source project). Upon a realease in 5/2006, Kevin's project was branded under a Creative Commons License, Thus rendering it closed source (unless someone paid a nominal fee to Kevin).

It was decided that a fork needed to be created in order to keep RTE open source and free. By doing so, RTEF has an advantage in that users can freely make and share enhancements. With that said, enjoy!

The current version has been released under the MIT License.

The MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYright HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Whats New

Enhanced support and bug fixes for the Safari and Opera web browser.
Better compression of the richtext_compressed.js file.
All languaches converted to UTF-8.
All source converted to XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
Speed up load time.
Formated and colored HTML view.
New GUI code.
Output ID changed from [name]+'hdn' to [name].
Faster resize code.
Read only mode has been removed.
Made code generated with Gecko more compatible with IE.
Lots of small bug fixes.
Fixed relative paths for all browsers.

Demos

Single RTEF:
demo.htm

Multiple RTEFs:
demo_multi.htm

Full Screen RTEF (with autoresize enabled):
demo_fullscreen.htm

Download

Download:
http://rtef.info/rtef_v0.005_20071227.zip

Support:
http://rtef.info/deluxebb/

Contributors

Multilingual : Names of the contributors can be found in each language file
Safari, Opera Support and relative paths - Anders Jenbo
Backward Compatibility - Craig Morey
Full screen mode - fills up the entire browser window (with or without auto resize) - Timothy Bell
Print function (prints content window) - Timothy Bell
Special characters - Timothy Bell
Cleaner user interface (looks the same in IE as it does in Mozilla) - Timothy Bell
Proper clean-up of dialogs (color palette and popups) - Timothy Bell
Auto Wrap Icons - if wide enough (1245px fullscreen mode, 1220px normal mode) all the icons will appear on one line. - Timothy Bell
Table Guidelines (shows dashed guidelines for tables that have a border equal to zero) - dannyuk1982(nickname) and Timothy Bell
Enhanced Insert Link Pop-up - allows you to add or link to anchors/bookmarks. - Timothy Bell, Tom Bovingdon and Rob Rix
Enhanced Insert Image Pop-up - allows you to add alternative text and borders to images upon insertion. - Rolf Cleis
Search And Replace - Timothy Bell and Rolf Cleis
Improved non-designMode() interface - Craig Morey
UTF-8 Support (not fully tested) - Timothy Bell
Word Counter - mharrisonline (nickname)
Special Character Retention - ndtreviv (nickname)
UnFormat HTML - mharrisonline (nickname)
Paste as Plain Text - mharrisonline (nickname)
Paste as Word - ndtreviv (nickname), mharrisonline (nickname)
Rewrite of trim() function - function went from around 25 lines of code to 3 - Timothy Bell
rteSafe Function - Provides a javascript based function to escape html for safe use in editor - Erel Segal
Added right-to-left feature/variable - display content right-to-left (pop-ups still in left-to-right) - Erel Segal

Issues:

Localization Updates - All Languages (except Danish, English, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish) need to have the following variables translated. They were included into each lang file as to avoid RTE from showing errors but they still need to be translated!!!!

lblPasteText = "Paste as Plain Text";
lblPasteWord = "Paste From Word";
lblWordCount = "Word Count";
lblUnformat = "Unformat";
lblCountTotal = "Word Count";
lblCountChar = "Available Characters";
lblCountCharWarn = "Warning! Your content is too long and may not save correctly.";
lblPasteTextHint = "Hint: To paste you can either right-click and choose \"Paste\" or use the key combination of Ctrl-V.<br><br>";
lblPasteTextVal0 = "Please enter text."
lblPasteWordHint = "Hint: To paste you can either right-click and choose \"Paste\" or use the key combination of Ctrl-V.<br><br>";
lblPasteWordVal0 = "Please enter text."

All Languages needs to have the following translated.

"Default"
"Relative"

Also see source files for a TODO list

Donations

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- Mac: to aid in quality control tests for safari.
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